About This PhD Project

Project Description

The Sensory Motor Neuroscience (SyMoN) lab is located at the University of Birmingham, in the School of Psychology. Grasping and lifting objects is a complex sensory motor task requiring coordination of grip forces normal to the grasp surfaces to stabilise the object in the hand and forces tangential to the grasp surfaces to lift the object off the support surface. The coordination is based on a combination of prediction (e.g. of the weight of the object - heavier requires more grip force) and reaction (e.g. the object is heavier than expected). The project will use motion tracking and force measurement to characterise coordination in lifting and handling objects.